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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Banana Lime Coconut Smoothie

This is one of my favorite smoothy recipes. I love all the ingredients in it. It is easy to make. It's nutritious. And the taste is simply divine! I make it for breakfast, but you can make it any time during the day.

I added raw, organic, free-range egg for an extra nutritional value, but if you have chosen a vegan lifestyle you may want to add a scoop of raw, vegan protein powder instead.

Ingredients:

2-3 ripe bananas

2-3 limes

1 cup coconut water

1 cup coconut milk

few drops of liquid stevia

1 organic raw egg

pinch pink Himalaya salt

Method:

Peel bananas and break them into manageable chunks. Throw into blender.

Squeeze the juice out of limes and pour it into blender.

Add coconut water and stevia. Blend until smooth.

Add coconut milk and a pinch of salt. Blend for a few more seconds.

Break the raw egg and add yolk and egg white (or a scoop of raw protein) into blender and blend again for a few seconds. Your smoothie should have a light, velvety texture.

Serve right away in tall glasses and enjoy in good company!

I started eating raw eggs when I was a child. My father used to make a deliciously nutritious raw egg treat for me and my sister. He would break the egg blend the yolk with lemon juice and sugar or honey. He would "beat" the egg white and add the white foam into the yolk. He would mix the whole thing very gently and taste it if it was sweet enough. We loved it and had him made it for us as often as possible. Back then no one was afraid of eating eggs, raw or cooked. Eggs were free range and organic. Anything else was considered inferior and people would refuse to buy it.

Today an egg seems to be a scary thing. And no wonder. With all the food scandals, unethical chicken farming, and the omnipresent fear of cholesterol, eggs lost their appeal to many health conscious people. And very few people choose to eat their eggs raw. This is quite unfortunate because raw eggs have amazing health benefits.

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Today, more than ninety five percent of all chronic disease is caused by food choice, toxic food ingredients, nutritional deficiencies and lack of physical exercise. - Mike Adams

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Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it. - Ann Wigmore

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One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. - Luciano Pavarotti

Why chose raw food?

The raw food diet, also known as the living food diet, is a diet primarily based on pure, unprocessed and uncooked plant foods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, nuts, dried fruit, and seaweed. While many people on raw food are vegans, some do not necessarily exclude other raw foods such as raw eggs, raw honey, raw milk, meat and fish.

The raw food diet consists of 75 - 100 percent raw foods and may include some foods that are cooked or baked. For a better absorption of nutrients raw diet should also include raw fermented foods.

It is important to understand that heating food above 118°F or 47°C destroys most of the enzymes that normally assist in the digestion of food and absorption of nutrients. On the energy level, cooking is believed to diminish the nutritional value and the "life force" of food thus making cooked and processed foods energetically less valuable to the body.

Proponents of the raw food diet believe it has numerous health benefits, including:

For many people raw food means more than a way to obtain nutrition. It is a joyful lifestyle they embrace consciously, knowing that it will lead them to a better mental and physical health and a much happier life.

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Health, excellent or ill, is passed to our children not just through our genes but primarily through our recipes. - Joanne L. Mumola Williams

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